View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the fire eater have to do once to win five shillings on a bet?
(a) Jump into the Thames River while on fire.
(b) Kill a cobra with his teeth.
(c) Walk on a tightrope forty feet off the ground while eating fire.
(d) Kill 20 rats in a cage with his teeth.

2. What does Mayhew say is difficult or impossible?
(a) To catalogue all the various ways to turn criminal.
(b) To write a book that fails to cover the morally deficient.
(c) To write a book that is fair to those who are morally defective.
(d) To catalogue all the various ways to earn a living.

3. What must someone who is physically or mentally unable to work do?
(a) He says he does not know what should be done about them.
(b) Be taken care of by the government.
(c) Rely upon others or charity.
(d) Find some small thing of which they are capable.

4. What was one thing the mission about which Hemyng writes intended to do?
(a) Reduce blasphemy.
(b) Increase marriage.
(c) Increase the saving of prostitutes to the Lord.
(d) Reduce abandoned children.

5. Where does the puppeteer perform his Punch and Judy show?
(a) On the particular street corner that he rents and pays taxes to the city.
(b) In the streets, at private parties, and at birthday parties for the children of noblemen.
(c) Mostly along the boardwalk that runs along the Thames River.
(d) In an auditorium or theater.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the father of the magician that Mayhew interviewed do for a living?

2. For how long had the clown worked in that capacity?

3. What did Hemyng call a soldier who was supported by a wealthy woman?

4. What did the photographic man do before this job?

5. In whom does Mayhew say this moral defect is present?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the clown Mayhew interviewed depressed and why was he a clown?

2. What did the London City Mission do?

3. What was the purpose of the mission?

4. Why did the author say "Dolly shops" were suspect?

5. What was describe that was similar to modern crack houses, what were they like? What happened to the girl the author wrote about who was lured from home?

6. How did cab drivers obtain their cabs, how many hours did they work, and what did they sometimes do to mitigate their long hours?

7. How did the fire eater Mayhew interviewed become one and what was his early life like?

8. What was an ongoing problem for the company from conductors and how did the bus companies combat that problem?

9. What was an example of a male prostitute the author gave?

10. Who did Tuckniss call a prostitute?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 941 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample